PRESS RELEASE: Francisco del Pino's "Decir" Out Now
Premiered by I Care If You Listen, Francisco del Pino's Decir is out now on all digital platforms
"del Pino’s vision is ethereal, yet heavy, distinguished, yet humble—and always beautiful." —Classical Post
Out today, Francisco del Pino's Decir is a seven-piece song cycle with timely lyrics of migration, displacement, and the rise of historically silenced voices.
As del Pino notes for the album premiere at I Care If You Listen, "A deliberately expressive and emotionally charged work, Decir seeks to synthesize the immediacy of contemporary popular songwriting and the architecture of early counterpoint."
Get to Know Arooj Aftab via Pitchfork 'Rising' Interview
"[On Vulture Prince] there’s still a boldness in the way the songs demand your attention. The lyrics are humid with imagery of stolen glances on starry nights and catastrophic heartache during the monsoon season, and Aftab sings each word with a hushed urgency. Despite the epic emotion of it all, she specifies that Vulture Prince has a history before and after the trauma she’s experienced. It is not defined by grief but rather, the moments when 'you accept your losses as part of your life, instead of pointing at them.'" —Pitchfork
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